Difference between Commutation and Commuting

What is the difference between Commutation and Commuting?

Commutation as a noun is a passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation. while Commuting as a noun is travel between home and workplace

Commutation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation. The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange. Substitution of one thing for another; interchange. Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour. The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes. The reversal of an electric current.

Commuting

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

Part of speech: noun

Definition: travel between home and workplace

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Causing, or involved in commutation

Example sentence: I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in.

We hope you now know whether to use Commutation or Commuting in your sentence.

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